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therefore, your responsibility. Well and faithfully 

 have you met this responsibility in the past. We 

 look forward with confident hope to what you will 

 do in the future, and it is therefore with sincerity 

 that I bid you Godspeed this evening and wish for 

 you, in the name of the Nation, a career of ever- 

 increasing honor and usefulness. 



AT THE BANQUET TENDERED GENERAL LUKE 



E. WRIGHT, AT MEMPHIS, TENN., 



NOVEMBER 19, 1902 



Mr. Toastmaster, General Wright, and you, my 

 friends, whose greeting to-night I shall ever re 

 member: 



IT is a real and great pleasure to come to this 

 typical city of the southern Mississippi Valley in 

 order to greet a typical American, a citizen of Ten 

 nessee, who deserves honor not only from his State, 

 but from the entire country General Luke E. 

 Wright. We have a right to expect a high standard 

 of manhood from Tennessee. It was one of the first 

 two States created west of the Alleghany Mountains, 

 and it was in this State that the first self-governing 

 community of American freemen was established 

 upon waters flowing into the Gulf. The pioneers of 

 Tennessee were among the earliest in that great 

 westward march which thrust the nation's border 

 across the continent to the Pacific, and it is emi 

 nently fitting that a son of Tennessee should now 

 play so prominent a part in the further movement 



